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1 | The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying, |
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2 | Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons
or daughters in this place. |
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3 | For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the
daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their
mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that
begat them in this land; |
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4 | They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented;
neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon
the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the
sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the
fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. |
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5 | For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning,
neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my
peace from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness
and mercies. |
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6 | Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they
shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor
cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them: |
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7 | Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to
comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup
of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother. |
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8 | Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with
them to eat and to drink. |
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9 | For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I
will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in
your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the
voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride. |
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10 | And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people
all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath
the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is
our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed
against the LORD our God? |
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11 | Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have
forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods,
and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have
forsaken me, and have not kept my law; |
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12 | And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk
every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they
may not hearken unto me: |
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13 | Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye
know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye
serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you
favour. |
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14 | Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it
shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the
children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; |
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15 | But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel
from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he
had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land
that I gave unto their fathers. |
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16 | Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they
shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and
they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill,
and out of the holes of the rocks. |
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17 | For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from
my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes. |
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18 | And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin
double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled
mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and
abominable things. |
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19 | O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day
of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends
of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited
lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit. |
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20 | Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods? |
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21 | Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will
cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know
that my name is The LORD. |
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